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NOTES ON SOME BUTTERFLIES OF TENEIMFE (PART II). 

 BY SIDNEY CEOMPTON, F.E.S. 



A few words about those butterflies which are representative of 

 European species. Some may be dismissed at once with the remark 

 that they are identical with the same species in Europe ; among these 

 are Pieris rapes, P. Baplidice, Aporia cratcegi, Lyccena hcetica, Chry- 

 sophanns Phlceas, Theda rubi, Danais Plexippus, Aryi/nnis Lathonia, 

 Pj/rameis Atalanta, P. cardui, and Resperia Actceon. Perhaps it may 

 be remarked that P. Baplidice, which is so rare in England, and con- 

 sidered one of the greatest entomological prizes, is common all over 

 Tenerife, from March till December. It was very abundant in the 

 winter of 1892-3, and 1894. The larva feeds on the cabbage. AV^ith 

 regard to A. cratcegi, though it has never been netted or seen by me 

 in the island, we have it on the authority of Mrs. Holt White that it 

 has been caught here, though not by herself. 



As I said before, those specimens of C. Pldaeas caught in the 

 Tenerife are identical in characters with those caught in England, 

 though I have in my cabinet here some $% with the hind-wings quite 

 black, and the black spots very large. 



By far the most interesting species in Tenerife are P. Callirhoe, 

 P. Huntera {virqiniensis, Drury), and the Coliadt's. 1 will take them 

 in order : — 



Pyeameis Calliruoe, E. 



This insect expands from two and a quarter to two and half 

 inches, Fome of the specimens caught in the Tenerife being larger 

 than P. Atalanta, to which it approximates very closely in general 

 appearance. It is much commoner here than P. Atalanta.. The chief 

 }»oint of divergence between the two is, that in P. Callirhoe the red 

 stripe on the fore-wings is larger and more indented, and of a bright, 

 deep, blood-red colour. The white apical markings are neither so 

 large nor so numerous as in P. Atalanta, and there is an absence of 

 the blue spots on the apex of the fore-wings. The under-side also 

 differs from P. Atalanta, the pale yellow costal patch in the hind- 

 wings being very indistinctly defined. The habitat of the larva is 

 similar to that of P. Atalanta, and there is no appreciable difference 

 between the chrysalis of the two species. Mrs. Holt White says in 

 her book (Appendix C) that, in rearing P. Callirlioe several specimens 

 were observed to emerge from the chrysalis with bright yellow 

 instead of red markings on the margins of the hind-wings. She also 

 remarks that the white markings on the fore-wings varied. According 



